okay. it may be embarrassing but that’s why it’s so funny. noam came home with some obscurely patriotic in-class assignment. they were supposed to write letters to prospective immigrants to the U.S. in order to convince them to become citizens. and noam’s letter had a line in it like “illegal immigrants don’t pay taxes.” so i kinda freaked, got pissed and wrote the teacher an email which probably reads like a nutty letter to the editor.